PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention. Behind the Numbers

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week Oxx, which tends to focus on B2B software startups, led the $12 million funding round for the company, which also saw participation from Industrifonden, SEB Venture Capital and KTH Chalmers Capital, according to reports. SMB Lending. Apica said it will use the funds to expand across the U.S. The company raised $2.5

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2024

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. Stifel offers senior secured loans up to $40 million for working capital and growth capital needs. Stifel Financial Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

According to a report in CNBC , the San Francisco startup said the Series D round of venture funding was led by DST Global , as well as new investors Coatue, General Atlantic, ICONIQ Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. Chime isn’t the only challenger bank to raise capital in recent months. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending company Breakout Capital is expanding its product line, according to company reports on Friday (Jan. Breakout Capital explained that the tool allows factoring firms to use its platform to reach borrowers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Another SME financing advocacy group has been formed, this time by OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital. The firms announced the creation of the Innovative Lending Platform Association on Thursday (May 5), citing advocacy, education and the development of best practices as their goals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank. Government agencies would lend at 1 percent, branding the program “One for America.”. “In

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

million from a group of investors led by the private equity arm of Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent. The injection of capital comes as Aye Finance prepares to resume lending in July to small businesses. To date, the company has said it has helped 200,000 small businesses work through the lending pipeline.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 15, 2019

It is this revolution that has led us to present Bank Innovation Build, our newest conference, on Nov. There is a revolution going on inside banking. And that’s not just a cheap cliche. Allow me to explain: A few days ago, Dana Maor, a senior partner at McKinsey, wrote that the consultancy believes “that […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Those were the good old days of Lending Club, a Silicon Valley darling that was the next big thing in lending. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement. I want to create something new and innovative.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After Metro Bank recently pulled back from plans to expand and decided to move away from lending for mortgages, the bank said it will return £50 million from the RBS bailout fund, according to a report. The company’s plans were thwarted when it was revealed that it was miscategorizing a number of loans when figuring out capital requirements.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools. Lendingkart.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2018

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital arm of Spanish bank Santander Group, made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian fintech Creditas. The investment in Creditas, a digital online lending platform, marks Santander’s first venture into the Brazilian fintech landscape.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) app is already part of AliExpress, the international shopping platform run by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, an affiliate of Ant Financial. . Other investors include venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Australia’s biggest bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia. tkowski, CEO, Klarna. .

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Takeaway 1 Having a cohesive vision from the top down is critical to a culture of innovation and the successful adoption of new software. . It’s great that more financial institutions are welcoming technological innovations, but banks and credit unions must consider the long-term impact of their partnerships. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The seed of FinTech innovation often comes from a desire to do things differently. But as finance and payments tech expands, these traditional FIs are learning that perhaps the best way to meet the demands of their corporate clients isn’t to compete with FinTech innovators but to collaborate with them.

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BankInovation

JUNE 26, 2020

economy began to show signs of recovery after the initial shockwaves of the Great Depression, General Electric launched a point-of-sale lending product to provide cash-strapped customers with installment loans so the manufacturer could sell its product. Since we spun out of GE Capital five years ago, we’ve just […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The digital connectivity of Web.com will help power Lendio’s business loan marketplace to enable businesses to access streamlined capital to help out with the current economic woes. Lendio founder and chief executive Brock Blake said he hoped the partnership would help speed up businesses’ access to capital during the current crisis. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Ant Financial has led a $500 million investment in startup Danke Apartments, a Beijing-based co-living group. In turn, tenants are burdened by the loan interest , essentially giving the operators free growth capital. In January, the company invested $40 million in FinTech lending company Akulaku.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. In the U.K.,

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2016

Marketplace lenders Funding Circle, Lending Club and Prosper announced Wednesday the formation of the Marketplace Lending Association, a nonprofit organization that will “promote responsible business practices and sound public policy to benefit borrowers and investors.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The nonprofits include: 1863 Ventures , Association for Enterprise Opportunity , African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs , Baltimore Business Lending , Black Girl Ventures , Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Micro Finance Group , EnrichHER , Expanding Black Business Credit Initiative , Grameen America , Kiva , MORTAR , Nebraska Enterprise (..)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

More than $150 million in venture capital bolstered the B2B FinTech market this week, and while investors made big steps into areas like human resources, fleet management and artificial intelligence (AI), it was an old favorite that saw the most, and largest, investment rounds: alternative lending. Alternative Lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Blockchain Capital. Blockchain heavyweight Ripple made headlines this week when it announced a $25 million investment in Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused on backing blockchain startups. The funding comes in the form of Ripple’s own cryptocurrency and will be used to fund startups selected by Blockchain Capital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“While the unprecedented business disruption caused by COVID-19 has presented many challenges, it has also given us the opportunity to reimagine our platform and improve our business,” said Neiman Marcus Group CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck in a statement. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. Evans, chief economist and founder at Global Economics Group, and a quartet of CEOs sat down to discuss how commerce has been wending its way speedily across borders. Lending, Lending Everywhere, With Quite a Lot to Think.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Raghav Mathur, head of data science and analytics at Singapore-based Grab Financial Group , discussed the opportunities in data technology that can address the region’s most pressing SMB lending needs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. and MarketInvoice.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

Investments ranged across geographies and industries, but the biggest highlights landed on trade financing and early wage access innovators, as startups bolster their value by supporting small businesses’ and employees’ financial recovery. Lending-as-a-service technology company Blend has secured a nearly $1.7

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Clear Mountain Bank is embracing flexibility, innovation and collaboration as it continues its ascent as a small-business connector in West Virginia. Consider, for example, its commercial lending approach. of Clear Mountain Bank’s loan portfolio comprises commercial lending, primarily to small businesses. Assets: $850 million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Co-signed by the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Independent Community Bankers of America and The Clearing House, the letter argues that banks and non-bank technology firms are both already embracing innovation in customer service offerings. This means getting regulation right is critical.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Alternative lending hasn’t completely lost its edge with investors. based invoice and trade finance firm Reward Finance Group recently reported it had raised more than $51 million from Foresight Group. We have known the business for some time and have been impressed by its development over the last few years.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

So why do FIs opt for the sideline in participating more fully in innovation? I recently wrote on these pages that FIs should develop Shark Tank like processes to get early stage equity capital into the hands of nearby entrepreneurs to fuel growth in local markets. But innovation need not start in northern California.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — Standard Bank Group, the largest bank in Africa, has joined the INV Fintech accelerator program as a partner, INV announced today. INV is the sister accelerator of Bank Innovation. Standard Bank, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, joins several financial services companies as INV partners.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

The Finovate Group, the fintech event and information venture, has been sold to Informa Plc. Jim Bruene, owner of The Finovate Group, has not responded to Bank Innovation‘s requests for comment Read More. The sale apparently closed last April, but has not been publicly disclosed. Terms of the deal are not known.

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